If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light.… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
